Synonyms for bombastic

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bombastic refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal padding and little substance; grandiloquent suggests an overreaching eloquence and implies the use of grandiose, high-flown language and an oratorical tone; flowery language is full of figurative and ornate expressions and high-sounding words; euphuistic is applied to an extremely artificial style of writing in which there is a straining for effect at the expense of thought; turgid implies such inflation of style as to obscure meaning